JANUARY PRAYER LETTER 2012

JANUARY, 2O1
PRAYER LETTER

Greetings,

MINISTRY UPDATES:
--tomorrow is prayer time during Sunday School hour for the first of the New Year; I can't think of a better way to begin than in prayer; the same for Fox's Hollow's Sunday School hour as well, we will be in prayer;
--continue with Zoar and Fox's Hollow and nearing completion on Tuesday and Thursday night bible study in the book of Genesis;
--prayer for Hampshire County is now the first and third Saturday of every month;
--continue for Sunday night Bible study/prayer at our house; 
--that makes 6 services on Sunday, may they deepen for 2012 by His Spirit;
--continue the daily prayer emails, there is just over 50 on this lists;
--looking at other ways of evangelism, prayer and  new labors for the New Year;

FAMILY:
--Hannah finished her first semester at college; 
--Joshua continues to tear his shoulder muscle during wrestling;
--I want to work with the kids on their spiritual disciplines for the New Year to maintain it better than last year;
--the 3 older ones are in relationships now; only through prayer will they be preserved and kept to find the one that God wants for them and not the one I want for them, or the one that they want for themselves;
--Christmas time offered a chance for a several nights of family and friends to visit;

PRAYER FOCUS:
--developed the 'prayer circles' composing of 5 areas of prayer; 
--have added a $1 notebook to write each day for needs presented, current events and locations of needed prayer to record in the 5 circles - 'You', 'County'; 'Country'; 'World' and 'Kingdom';
--marriages continue to be a pawn of Satan; destroying lives and families;
--over 100 lost souls;
--26 marriages;
--3 different prayer groups - Broken Before the Throne, Sunday night group at my house; SBC leadership;
--two church families;
--cancer patients - 5 on this lists;

BOOKS:
What a blessed year for reading for me.  I started off the year to read some of the greatest recorded revivals in history.  I have labored through the year with biographies, prayer books and other deep spiritually recommended books;
Currently working on:
--'The Hidden Life of Prayer'; 'Mighty Prevailing Prayer', slowly worked through this book all year; 'Looking Unto Jesus'; 'The Christian in Complete Armor'; ''Deeper Experiences of Famous Christians'; 'Why Revival Tarries'; 'the power of the Spirit'; 'A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life'; just about finished, 'Behind the Ranges, the story of JO Fraser'; 'the Ministry of the Spirit' by AJ Gordon;

Such a blessed reading and instruction from great saints!!


NEW YEAR PLANS FOR SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES EACH DAY:
--read through the Bible twice, January through May and July through Novermber;
--word study for the first half of the year is 'all';
--writing out on my blog all the times God says, 'I will. . . '  what a rich blessing and application to our lives in prayer;
--rememorzie Psalm 119 in June and December;
--continue to write devotinal blogs from each chapter of the Bible; currently in Isaiah 1;
--fast on Wednesday's sunrise to sunset;
--devotional readings - Spurgeon, Morning and Evening; Thomas Watson daily readings; God's best SEcrets by Andrew Murray; Gurnall, The Chrsitian in Complete Armour;
--prayers in the morning and work on writings, readings and prayers from 10:30 til midnight;  A morning and evening time with the Lord;
--continue writings to email lists from what the Lord is saying to me that I might pass it on;

ANSWERED PRAYERS:
--much answered prayer over sick and cancer patients;
--provisions continue in great ways;
--one marriage being healed;
--new couple at Fox's Hollow;
--murder/suicide abated as I prayed against this evil;


We ended the year with prayer and I will begin the year with prayer.  More prayer, more power, more of His Spirit to fill us.
How desperate the need for revival, prayer is its only ability to prevail with God to send it.

until,
dan biser
http://dbiser.blogspot.com
http://www.brokenbeforethethrone.com
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